English Poem

Lover’s Gifts XLVIII: I Travelled the Old Road

I travelled the old road every day, I took my fruits to the market,my cattle to the meadows, I ferried…

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Lover’s Gifts XLIV: Where Is Heaven

Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it isbeyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed…

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Lover’s Gifts XLII: Are You a Mere Picture

Are you a mere picture, and not as true as those stars, true asthis dust? They throb with the pulse…

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Lover’s Gifts XIX: It Is Written in the Book

It is written in the book that Man, when fifty, must leave thenoisy world, to go to the forest seclusion.…

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Lover’s Gifts XIII: Last Night in the Garden

Last night in the garden I offered you my youth's foaming wine. Youlifted the cup to your lips, you shut…

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Lover’s Gifts V: I Would Ask For Still More

I would ask for still more, if I had the sky with all its stars,and the world with its endless…

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Lover’s Gifts LVIII: Things Throng and Laugh

Things throng and laugh loud in the sky; the sands and dust danceand whirl like children. Man's mind is aroused…

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Lover’s Gifts LIV: In the Beginning of Time

In the beginning of time, there rose from the churning of God'sdream two women. One is the dancer at the…

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Lover’s Gifts IV: She Is Near to My Heart

She is near to my heart as the meadow-flower to the earth; she issweet to me as sleep is to…

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Lotus

On the day when the lotus bloomed, alas, my mind was straying,and I knew it not. My basket was empty…

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